(v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
(v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This leads to a notion of a "universal" hierarchically structured automaton mu which can move on a given graph in such a way as to emulate any automaton which moves on that graph in response to inputs.
(2) By scanning the automaton along nucleotide sequences, we can identify the positions of 5'-splice junctions with a degree of discrimination of up to 94-97% in the known genes, while the degree of prediction is in the range 50-55% in new genes.
(3) According to this model, the living cell is a self-moving, self-thinking and self-reproducing machine (automaton) that receives information and energy from its environment, processes them according to the genetic programs stored in DNA, and generates output signals to environment in order to realize teleonomically designed functions.
(4) Brownian algebra developed by Spencer-Brown (1969) is extensively used for the expression of cellular-automaton rules.
(5) With western newsfeeds depicting North Koreans as starving, brainwashed automatons, I sought to humanise and understand them.
(6) You are not supposed to demand your ticket as if you were dealing with an automaton.
(7) Preliminary experiments show the discriminative power of the cluster automaton concerning sexual differences and emotivity, as well as the extensive of a basic mechanism of clustering as a collective response to stress.
(8) Right now gamers feel as though they are being treated as copyright violators or automatons.
(9) When such an automaton is linked by its input and output to a deterministic process, it always stabilizes and it then has the property to rebuild itself.
(10) Increasing the number of organization levels in the automaton is shown to increase its efficiency in buffering external changes, and the mechanism of modulating the processing rules appears more efficient than the mechanism of controlling the mutation rate.
(11) The criterion used to maintain the correct movement direction lies on the distances from the automaton position to the side boundaries (lengths of the cockshafer antennae).
(12) The conventional serum-dilution bactericidal test used for monitoring antibiotic therapy in severely infected in patients requires 72 h. Use of an automaton would be expected to provide faster results.
(13) She says herself that she was "never a pager automaton", a term used for those hordes of robotically loyal MPs.
(14) Too often dental education and the dental profession have seemed to espouse the idea that the technician must function as an automaton in the fabrication of removable partial dentures.
(15) Taking this approach, we infer the grammatical rules which specify 5'-splice sites and construct a finite automaton which is the recognizer of the nucleotide sequences at 5'-splice sites.
(16) These token data are translated, normalized, and constitute the input alphabet to a finite state machine (automaton).
(17) Yet when it comes to women, we tell them they must appear “likeable” and view them as a hive of drone-brained automatons who all think and respond as one.
(18) It turns them into our playthings, always-accessible automatons onto whom we can project all our fantasies.
(19) A theoretical analysis of ventricular fibrillation and the requirements for fibrillation are performed using a discrete element neighborhood (cellular automaton) model of ventricular conduction.
(20) If neural activity is modelled within an automaton framework, neural processes may be conveniently described in terms of state trajectories.
Zombie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
(3) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(4) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
(5) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
(6) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(7) Nor are Hay Day, Plants vs. Zombies 2, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims FreePlay, Angry Birds Go, or anything with “Saga” on the end.
(8) • Internet fridges: the zombie idea that just won't die
(9) ), there are practical concerns about functionally turning one's phone into a zombie in the undead Zuckerberg army: Leviathan212 04 April 2013 6:48pm Sounds like an absolute horror.
(10) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(11) However, what Warner has helped create is a "zombie policy" – currently politically dormant but waiting to be given the kiss of life in the future.
(12) Also prompting hyperventilating zombie headlines was a leaked “secret” Labor options paper on climate policy – which basically said only what we already knew – that Labor would have an emissions trading scheme of some sort in combination with other policies (the same ones that could help meet the renewable energy goal) as well as things like vehicle emission standards.
(13) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
(14) Microsoft statisticians estimate that owners of the new console have already dispatched more than 60m zombies, driven 3.6m miles and earned 43m fit points as they explore some of the 22 titles available at launch.
(15) Presumably, becoming a zombie involves some sort of widespread, systematic brain damage in which baser survival instincts take over, and motor and language areas are damaged, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the zombie doesn’t remember .
(16) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(17) But, unlike most of the bizarre things said about this place, the zombies at least make sense.
(18) Back when it suited Green, he emphasized that Assange has not been charged with any crime, that there is far from any certainty that he would be, and that extradition to Sweden is merely for him "to be questioned" on these allegations: exactly the "myths" and "zombie facts" which he now purports to bust.
(19) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(20) The TV series was part of a “zombie-like revival of the defunct empire”.